Having Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs use the APP Plus quality measure set allows for the comprehensive incorporation of the quality measures in the Adult Universal Foundation measure set by the CY 2028 performance period/2030 MIPS payment year and the better alignment of the quality measures reported by Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs with the Medicaid Core Sets and the Marketplace Quality Rating System, which have previously adopted the quality measures in the Adult Universal Foundation
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Another large part of the association is likely due to underlying (confounding) factors (such as a desire for risk-taking or exposure to smoking family members or peers) that make a youth more likely to vape and smoke
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They, in part, argue that the government has no substantial interest in improving the publics understanding of the health harms of smoking, absent evidence that such improved understanding will affect consumer behavior and diminish smoking. The tobacco companies say the warnings serve only the purely academic interest of providing consumers information